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Amanda

TARGET MARKETING USING SOCIAL MEDIA

I’ve recently joined the It’s Your Time team as an Administrative Coordinator after about 15 years of supporting financial advisors and portfolio managers with their books of business in several of the top investment firms in Vancouver. Target marketing using social media is not often used for marketing as finding clients in the financial industry is still very much a face-to-face process. Therefore, I had not had much exposure to

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September 26, 2018
Our Community
Amanda

Help Us Keep Vancouver’s Shoreline Clean!

Nothing feels better than getting together with people you enjoy and doing something great.  Last year It’s Your Time co-hosted a Shoreline Cleanup with our colleagues at Fresh Start Recycling and Disposal and Reeve Consulting.  Our goal was to clean English Bay beach, deepen our relationships with each other and make some new friends. Each box got ticked!  This year we plan to keep Vancouver’s shoreline clean once again. This

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September 20, 2018
Delegating
Amanda

5 Steps to Successful Delegation

 Stop trying to know everything.  Our computer’s not working, we don’t try to fix it we call the experts .  We need headshots, I don’t take a photography class, I call in a headshot photographer .  You don’t need to figure out the details of how it’s done when it’s time to delegate.  You just need to identify what you want to delegate and how you want to work. Make a high value list. 

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August 30, 2018
Delegating
Amanda

5 Steps to Determining WHAT to Delegate

Delegating is hard!!!  For those of us that have bootstrapped our business we’ve become accustomed to doing it all and trying to figure out what and how to delegate seems like more work than it’s worth.  So for the uber competent, slightly control freakish owner we’ve created our 5 Steps to determining WHAT to delegate. Find a quiet spot.  Thinking effectively takes space: both physical and mental.  Clear some time

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August 9, 2018
Our Community
Amanda

Help Us Keep Vancouver’s Shoreline Clean!

Nothing feels better than getting together with people you enjoy and doing something great.  Last year It’s Your Time co-hosted a Shoreline Cleanup with our colleagues at Fresh Start Recycling and Disposal and Reeve Consulting.  Our goal was to clean English Bay beach, deepen our relationships with each other and make some new friends. Each box got ticked!  This year we plan to keep Vancouver’s shoreline clean once again. This

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July 18, 2018
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Technology
Amanda

Cool new thing: Focus!

Just like every other business, we are always looking to optimize and document our systems. I was struggling with the push and pull between processes that took more time to manage than the work itself and lack of process that left too much room for human error.  A wonderful chat with Caterina Snyder, a colleague and Business Transformation Artist in Edmonton, provided some clarity.  She had one word:  Focus! The

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July 9, 2018
Our Community
Amanda

It’s Your Time Cleans Vancouver’s Shoreline

Nothing feels better than getting together with people you enjoy and doing something great.  Last Friday It’s Your Time co-hosted a Shoreline Cleanup with our colleagues at Fresh Start Recycling and Disposal and Reeve Consulting.  Our goal was to clean English Bay beach, deepen our relationships with each other and make some new friends. Each box got ticked! We were joined by 45 volunteers made up of friendly fresh faces

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September 28, 2017
Delegating
Amanda

Are you speaking Greek to your team?

How many times have repeated the same thing over and over to your team; only to have them agree and then do the exact opposite? Have you considered that you’re not talking the same language?  Today at lunch, I shared a story of a transformative a-ha moment I had on this very topic with my team.  My lunch partner strongly urged me to share the story and lessons learned –

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August 23, 2017
Exploring the full potential
Amanda

A Great Team Means Freedom to Make Mistakes

What was the last really big gaff you made?  At the time you likely wanted to fall through the floor; but I’m willing to bet that with some reflection you’re a better employee or business owner because of it. One of the greatest compliments I receive from our clients is when they ask me to help hire one of their in-house team members (or try to steal mine away) because

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August 15, 2017

Calling all Experienced Electricians!

Our awesome client, Leading Edge Electric, is looking for experienced commercial journeymen and apprentice’s with 2 years+ experience in commercial projects. If this is you, please check out the job posting below! We are a small/medium size electrical contractor that requires apprentice, journeyman and foreman electricians to start right away.  We work throughout the lower mainland with the majority of our work located between Surrey and Vancouver. Our Projects vary

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August 23, 2016